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Tapping women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana
6 Sep 2012Selling tomatoes at a marketplace in Accra, Ghana: Women face many hurdles in expanding their businesses beyond the “micro” level.Photograph: Alamy Images / Ulrich Doering
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Women struggle to secure land rights
Maize field in Malawi: Women account for 70 per cent of Africa’s food production, but often do not...
Does financing benefit African women?
Few women in Africa work in regular, formal sector jobs, and even those generally earn too little...
Gender violence hampers AIDS fight
Holding anti-retroviral medicines in Zambia: Fear of violence has prompted some women to hide or...
Investing in the health of Africa’s mothers
Checking the blood pressure of an expectant mother in Rwanda.Photograph: Redux / eyevine / Kate...
Security reform key to protecting women
Graduates of the police academy in Liberia: Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country has...
Taking on violence against women in Africa
Slogan on a wall in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi: Kenya has a law against domestic violence, but...
North African women on the barricades
Egyptians in Cairo's Tahrir Square celebrate the fall of the Mubarak government, but activists...
Three women laureates
Wangari Maathai, the late environmental and human rights activist.Photograph: Associated Press /...
African women are ready to lead
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf taking the presidential oath in Liberia, after her election: Partly because...
NEPAD embraces women’s rights
NEPAD acknowledges that women play the predominant role in food production.Photograph: UN Photo /...
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